Full Live Through This Deconstruction - When Lies Accidentally Become Factual - Armageddon For Courtney Love Fans
See Part 1 : Live Through This Conception Timeline
“And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves, people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken.“
Everyone basically fucked up. When Courtney decided to front her fake belief system that she’d co-written Pennyroyal Tea, a cluster fuck of press was created over Courtney having good writing chops. She was this up and coming burning witch archetype that was simultaneously being backed by Riot Grrl movement associations and praise from love-struck journalists such as Everett True. To this day if you google, ‘Courtney Love Co Writer Pennyroyal Tea,’ you have article fodder spanning back to 1992 and 4 and saying this. The question is - where did it come from and how does it relate to …anything?
The answer is everything because this myth she single handedly created knocks any potential 'but but but!’ Live Through This support vehicle of Kurt out of the water. It honestly does because as soon as you get past that lump of a story, it throws out any potential that she didn’t write Old Age, 20 Years In The Dakota, Asking For It, and Miss World chasing all the way back to Doll Parts. It’s over, you’re done. Courtney takes the cake and wins all of your chess pieces. However, in classic, build-you-up-to-knock-you-down straw man style, what if I told you that Pennyroyal Tea actually .. wasn’t..co-written by her at all?
This is how I’m going to lead you out of these woods you’re in because you’re obviously stuck - She lied about that, thanks to the credit of Nirvana seeker Carrie Borzillo, and turns out that her whole damn camp, at the expense of building inconsistent and incorrect Nirvanaclub, Nirvanalive, and various Wiki source pages, accidentally tripped over themselves to admit that Live Through This is a poorly thought out, yet well entertained lie. How did it happen you ask? It happened because someone should have put the Axis Powers of Courtney’s Ass Monkeys in the same room and told them all to sing the same tune because good god all loving fuck there are inconsistencies.
Also, for the sake of being a smart ass, dying to say, 'I told you so,’ I’m going to include the fact that Krist Novoselic verified with NPR last year (there’s even audio for god’s sake) that Pennyroyal Tea, much like Old Age (cough), was Kurt’s. Property of pre Nevermind Nirvana.
Then again, Courtney was complaining something like 15 years ago that Krist and Dave didn’t stand up for her lick around her rectum when the media was steam rolling her over suspicions that Live Through This had been a ghost Kurt record because Celebrity Skin had enflamed some old suspicions. Suspicions we’d all been called sexist for even assuming that reincarnated into accusations that we were sexist for believing Billy hand held her through Celebrity Skin.
I wonder .. why?
First of all, Kurt’s vocals can be found on a rogue track of Asking For It, (singing - "Live through this, Live through this”). Funny thing about his vocals though - You read this extensive little SPIN interview published from April 2014 and you see this pattern in conjunction with other things :
Which dick shoots straighter? / Hard paraphrasing -
Via Jessica Hopper / SPIN -
Sean Slade - Kurt kept asking to hear everything over the phone.
Courtney Love - Kurt only sang one song. Mixed it up / re released it.
Patty Schemel - Did stuff on Asking For It.
Eric Erlandson - He didn’t know the songs, gave us harmonies, mumbled over a couple songs that were turned up in a mix later. You can hear him on top of 'Softer, Softest,’ but wasn’t involved.
Sean Slade [LTT Producer] - Kurt told us what to do and gave us specific instructions to make it sound like Nevermind but we didn’t do it.
Paul Kolderie - [LTT Producer] - Kurt kept coming in to check on us and telling us what he liked and didn’t like. We thought Kurt would come in and mix it with Scott Litt like what they did with In Utero. Everything was so tense.
Livenirvana’s outline sounds a bit different in places however.
Via Charles Cross / Heavier Than Heaven -
Paul Kolderie - Courtney kept telling him to sing on songs and he’d complain that he wasn’t familiar with the material.
Via Livenirvana Discussion With Paul Kolderie -
Paul Kolderie - The only vocals from Kurt you can hear is on Asking For It, 'If you live through this with me,’ and he sang on 5 or so tracks in total, probably Violet, Miss World, and Doll Parts, and others
Via Everett True / THE GUARDIAN 2011
Everett True - He did backing vocals for two songs and did an uncredited B-side 'Old Age’ for Hole. That was it.
Via Melody Maker 1997 / Everett True’s Swolen For Courtney Maker
Courtney Love - Me and Patty went down to Kurt in Brazil and we all did the first demo of Miss World together at 4am. (1993)
Livenirvana - Reviewer clarifies that Pennyroyal Tea, contrary to Charles Cross’s claims, was performed during a sound check in 1991, and had nothing to do with Courtney, not even 'influentially’
Live Through This - LPs / EPs / Full Album - Kurt’s backing vocals uncredited and Scott Litt’s [In Utero mixer/producer] mixing contributions to majority of album
x x x
Play a game of loop-de-loop. Kurt’s involvement ranges from 'he didn’t do anything’ to 'he kinda did things - but didn’t do anything’ to 'he did shit but we don’t like saying that he did shit but he did do shit but then didn’t do shit’ to 'he did shit.’ AKA - The stories don’t match because they’re falling into each other and wind up accidentally verifying that Kurt, in fact, did have involvement.
Combined with Brazillian production person’s input from Nirvana’s Brazillian faction in combination with this contradicting information, nails shit to the ground.
Because how could Kurt not have known what the fuck was going on when he was in Brazil in January 1993 rehearsing LTT songs, as also confirmed by Courtney (oddly) herself?
How in the lonesome fuck do you not attribute involvement for being in the studio every day and asking for the tracks to be ran by Kurt and 'mumbling’ over vocals and creating harmonies?
And how in the hell, writing wise, was anything even considered to be made genuinely when all of those infamous 'Violet,’ 'Doll Parts,’ and 'Asking For It,’ anecdotes were made within the same month and a half in 1991? Combined with Kurt’s admitted desperation to be a part of the project?
Then low and behold, song theft occurs, 'sides’ are taken in the LTT debacle, and the proof is scattered, broken, and fragmented amidst a bandwagon of people that have 8 different anecdotes about whether or not Kurt wrote Live Through This - that were all there, in the same room, at the same time.
Which means that Kurt was ultimately in charge of everything and the crew 'clean up’ is that he kinda sorta / maybe / did one / or two / or more songs / and / did / harmonies on shit that’s magically gone missing thanks to Geffen.
And the nail in the coffin, once and for all? Fin? Christ resurrected?
Carrie.
And, (adding, constantly) -
Kurt’s unsent letter to Tobi featuring what would later be lyrics to Miss World that was verified to have been worked on by Kurt
Ladies and gentlemen, we have our answer.